BOXING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 45, 6 February 1912, Page 2

BOXING.

Sidney, Jqn. 31. The meeting /of Hock Keys and Frank O’Grady in Melbourne on February sth is arousing a lot cf interest locally. Immediately the cantos; is over Keys will return to Sydney and continue training for his engagement with Sid. Sullivan en February 13tb. The latter match will lie staged at the Gniet.v Athletic Chi!).

Th? Gaiety Athletic Club management have arranged a match between Morris Fleming, the young South African Welter, and Pat Bradley, a recent arrival from San Francisco. The date assigned for the fixture is Al arch 12th. Air. 11. R. Oswald, in commending the decision of the National Sporting Club to bar the kidney punch, said : —“1 am very glad that the decision has been arrived at. because thia punch is particular]v dangerous. I attend a gymnasium regularly to keep myself in condition, and 1 got a boxing man to show me how the punch is delivered. It is absolutely impossible for a man to defend himself from it. YVhen it is given it falls upon a part which is unprotected by hones, and is only covered by muscle. The organ might be ruptured, or even the spleen. It might easily kill a man, and boxing was never meant to kill men.”

In the re-arrangement of Stadium dates, tl:e meeting of Jimmv Clabby and Dave Smith has been set down for February 17th. two days before the AVyalc-ng disaster benefit.